Mark Watson

i’ve updated my support ticket in with host uk2.net – almost 24hrs without a response!

update : finally got time to look at the site, and it was easy to fix – just a case of re-creating the main sql user who is linked to the main sql database which holds wordpress.

But the question remains, how did that sql user (the only sql user on my system) disappear? I certainly didn’t log into cpanel and delete the user.

thx whooami, appreciate your help. I’m off to bed now.

If anyone else has any contributions, happy for you to add to the thread.

so the user that you created to access this particular DB is gone.

talk to your host.

I’ve got a support ticket in with them. I’m not familiar with SQL, so it’s a learning curve. Is this kind of thing likely to be down to them changing something?

And if I or they do reinstate the user, will this restore the site aok?

When you install wp, you create a database in mysql, and create a user in mysql, and then link the two. Then you install wp.

It’s this mysql user that has disappeared. The database is still there, and I can browse that and see the 3x users I created within wordpress (or the one admin created when installing wp, and two I created). And in the sql dbase I can the posts and settings for the theme etc. No clear evidence of spam in there, just confused as to how the sql user to link with the database has gone.